World Battlefronts: Back to Burma

Two U.S. pilots winging over the head-hunter-inhabited Naga Hills on a
routine patrol flight toward Burma were the first to spot the Japanese
attack force heading into India. A few Jap planes were drawn into
battle, but most of them roared on toward the Assam terminus of the
aerial Burma Road.

Soon lean, tall, Red Cross Worker Robert Porter, breakfasting in an army
mess, heard a noise he had learned to heed in China. He called: "Those
are the Japanese." Unbelieving officers scrambled from the mess hall
for a look, agreed with Porter only when one officer exclaimed: "They
must be Japanese....